Ecclesial Being: Contributions to Theological Dialogue

by Constantine Scouteris, Christopher Veniamin (Editor)

Overview

In his Ecclesial Being Professor Constantine Scouteris focuses most ably on the mystery of the human person in the context of the conciliarity of the Church. His vision of the unity of the Orthodox churches, based on the Pauline theme of the New Israel, embraces all Orthodox Christian peoples - wonderfully diverse in language and culture - as one nation in Christ, which the entire world is invited to join.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940186164524
Publisher:	Mount Thabor Publishing
Publication date:	08/02/2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Constantine Scouteris was a spiritual child of St. Porphyrios of Kafsokalyvia, the Hutdweller (1906-1991), and one of Greece's foremost theologians, specializing in ecclesiology, the mystery of the Church as a theanthropic institution, and in Christian anthropology, the nature and purpose of human existence. Scouteris was attuned to the more serious concerns of the day, and always focused on the perennial, ultimate questions of life. He was deeply convinced that communion - personal communion - was the key to world unity and peace. The burning question for him, therefore, was how to enter into real communion with others and attain to true unity.

Born in Athens in 1939, Dr. Scouteris studied at Athens, Strasbourg, and Oxford. He was Professor of the History of Doctrine and Symbolic Theology in the University of Athens, and also taught at the School of Theology at Balamand in Lebanon, and at the Theological Schools of Geneva and Freiburg. He was elected member of the prestigious Académie Internationale des Sciences Religieuses in 2001; and In March and April of 2006, he was sponsored by the Onassis Foundation (USA) to conduct a lecture tour of the United States in the context of its University Seminar Program. A man for all seasons, Dr. Scouteris represented the Orthodox Church in a variety of capacities all over the world: in the Orthodox-Anglican dialogue, in the European Council of Churches (CEC), and in the World Council of Churches (WCC), and was always regarded with respect as a positive force in the quest for unity.

Dr. Christopher Veniamin is a spiritual child of St. Sophrony the Athonite (1896-1993), a graduate of the Universities of Thessalonica and Oxford, has served as Professor of Patristics at St. Tikhon’s Seminary (1994-2023), and as Dean and COO of The Antiochian House of Studies (2015-2020). He is also the author of The Orthodox Understanding of Salvation: "Theosis" in Scripture and Tradition; and The Transfiguration of Christ in Greek Patristic Literature: From Irenaeus of Lyons to Gregory Palamas With Addendum The Transfiguration of Christ in the "Spiritual Homilies" of Macarius the Egyptian. His translation, Saint Gregory Palamas: The Homilies, for which he wrote a prodigious number of scholia, is arguably the greates single-volume commentary on the Bible in Patristic literature.